Red Cross & Red Crescent Monuments Around the World

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1851 - Clara Barton Schoolhouse, Bordentown, New Jersey (USA). "In 1851, teacher and humanitarian Clara Barton established New Jersey's first free public school. Barton is best known for her later achievement as founder of the American Red Cross."

1864 & 1872 - Salle de l'Alabama / Hall of the Alabama, Hotel de Ville / City Hall, Geneva (Switzerland). On August 22, 1864, the [First] Geneva Convention was signed here, founding the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and beginning Geneva's role as an internaitonal city." On September 14, 1872, an international tribunal meeting here settled the so-called "Alabama Claims" of the USA against the UK about actions of the CSS Alabama & other raiders during the US Civil War, thus establishing the principle of international arbritration.

	Date? - Statue of Guillaume Henri Dufour, Geneva (Switzerland). Guillaume Henri Dufour [1787-1875] was a general, pioneer cartographer, and co-founder of the Red Cross in 1863.
	1910 - Grave of Florence Nightingale, St. Margaret's Church, East Wellow, Hampshire (England). Crimean War Memorial. One of 309 London monuments in Kershman (2007), page 104.

1910 - Grave of Henri Dunant, Friedhof Zürich-Sihlfeld (Switzerland). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize. He died in Heiden (Switzerland).

Date? - Henri Dunant Monument, Heiden (Switzerland). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

Date? - Henri Dunant Monument, Geneva (Switzerland). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

Date? - Henri Dunant Denkmal / Henri Dunant Monument, Dunantgasse, Künstler H. R. Pippal, Floridsdorf, Wohnhausanlage Karl-Seitz-Hof, Wien / Vienna (Austria). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

Date? - Henri Dunant Monument, Nagoya (Japan). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

After 1904 - Unattributed color lithograph, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (USA). Shows Japanese Red Cross tents & personnel giving medical attention to wounded Japanese and Russian soldiers near the Amur River during the Russo-Japanese War in April 1904.

1914 - Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya (Japan).

1915 - Statue of Florence Nightengale, Waterloo Place, Lower Regent Street & Pall Mall, London (England). Sculpted by Arthur George Walker [1861-1939]. Florence Nightingale [1820-1910], who came to be known as 'The Lady with the Lamp,' was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician. Note lamp in the statue's right hand. Bronze plaque shows Nightengale in hospital, advising. Next to Statue of Sidney Herbert [1810-1861] and in front of The Guards Monument. All three are part of the Crimean War Memorial. One of 309 London monuments in Kershman (2007), page 104.

1917 - Headquarters Building, American Red Cross (ARC), 430-17th Street, Washington, DC (USA). Dedicated "in memory of the heroic women of the Civil War." The building still contains Red Cross offices and a museum. The ARC was established in Washington, DC, on May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton [1821-1912] who became its first president. See Clara Barton National Historic Site (1975).

1917 - Tiffany Windows, American Red Cross (ARC), 430-17th Street, Washington, DC (USA). Depict the most significant values of the Red Cross: Hope, faith, charity and love. Designed & constructed by the renowned studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany [1848-1933], son of the New York City jeweler. Reputed to be the largest set of windows still in their original state.

1918? - Memorial Window, St. Mary the Virgin Church, Swardeston, Norfolk (England). British Nurse Edith Cavell [1865-1915] was "quite the most famous woman to be killed in World War I." "In Swardeston, where she was born [and her father was rector], the window over the altar of the church is dedicated to her." "Completed before the end of the War by Ernest Heasman. Edith Cavell kneels in her nurse's uniform at the foot of the cross, accompanied by smaller, appropriate figures, including St. Agnes, St. Margaret and Florence Nightingale." Image shows a detail from the window. Click here for more Edith Cavell monuments in the UK, Belgium, France, Canada, Australia & the USA.

1946 - Headquarters Building, Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) / International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva (Switzerland). Building constructed in 1876 and used for various purposes before becoming ICRC headquarters in 1946.

1959 - Red Cross Monument, Solferino (Italy). "On a mountain the inaugurated monument of the red cross is to be found at the end of a Zypressenallee, at which each national red cross or red half moon company is represented by a stone board." Solferino is where the Red Cross began in June 1859.

1959 - Museo Internazionale Della Croce Rossa / International Museum of the Red Cross, Via Garibaldi n.50, Castiglione delle Stiviere (Italy). Operated by the Italian Red Cross

Date? - Clara Barton Birthplace Museum, 66 Clara Barton Road, North Oxford, Massachusetts (USA). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property is also home to the Barton Center for Diabetes Education, Inc. Clara Barton [1820-1912] founded the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881, in Dansville, New York

Date? - Clara Barton Monument, Antietam National Battlefield, National Park Service (NPS), Sharpsburg, Maryland (USA). Clara Barton [1821-1912] treated wounded soldiers during the battle on September 17, 1862 (the bloodiest day in the history of US wars), and afterwards.

September 29, 1961 - Casa Henri Dunant / Henri Dunant House, Varazze (Italy). "En 1949, la Croix-Rouge suisse acquiert la propriété. Dans la Suisse d’alors naît la Croix-Rouge de la Jeunesse: ce mouvement, qui s’étend aujourd’hui au monde entier, est étroitement lié au milieu scolaire et vise à y transposer les principes de la Croix-Rouge." Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

1969 - Henri Dunant Museum, Asylstrasse 2, Heiden (Switzerland). In the nursing home where he lived from 1892 until his death in 1910. "A special room is devoted to his vision of a world without war & social need." Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] received the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.

1975 - Clara Barton National Historic Site, National Park Service (NPS), 5801 Oxford Road (at MacArthur Boulevard), Glen Echo, Montgomery County, Maryland (USA). The first National Historic Site dedicated to the accomplishments of a woman. A former Red Cross field hospital actually used by Clara Barton [1821-1912] for relief immediately following the Johnstown Flood on May 31, 1889. Barton lived here from 1897 until her death in 1912. NPS has restored eleven rooms, including Red Cross offices, parlors, and Miss Barton's bedroom. Visited by EWL.

September 8, 1979 - Monument to Dr. Marcel Junod, in front of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima (Japan). Dr. Marcel Junod [1904-1961] of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) entered Hiroshima on September 8, 1945, and began treating survivors while carrying out studies of the damage. #29 of 56 "cenotaphs & monuments" on the Virtual E-Tour.

December 9, 1987 - Florence Nightingale Museum, Florence Nightingale Museum Trust, Gassiot House, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, London (England). One of only 3 "musuems for peace" in the UK (vs. more than 60 in the USA). Known as "The Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale [1820-1910] was a pioneering nurse, writer & noted statistician.

November 1988 - Musee International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge / International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum, 17 avenue de la Paix, Geneva (Switzerland). Click here for Wikipedia article. Right image shows "The Petrified" at museum entrance.

	1989 - Armenian Earthquake, White House, Washington, DC (USA). Statue of a woman holding a child. Gift of the people of Armenia to thank the American Red Cross for their assistance during an earthquake that ravaged Armenia on December 7, 1988. Thousands were killed and tens of thousands left homeless.
	August 12, 1989 – Red Cross Memorial Stone, Dybbøl (Denmark). Commemorates the first use of the Red Cross symbol in an armed conflict during the Battle of Dybbøl in 1864. Jointly erected in 1989 by the national Red Cross societies of Denmark and Germany.
	1996 - Henri Dunant Monument, Nobel Peace Walk, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales (Australia). Henry Dunant [1828-1910] founded the International Red Cross. He & Frédéric Passy [1822-1912] shared the first (1901) Nobel Peace Prize.
	1999? – Red Cross Monument, Monrovia? (Liberia). Inscribed "50th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, Jun. 12, 1949-1999."

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